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  • 41sexual desire — Synonyms and related words: an universal wolf, andromania, anger, animus, aphrodisia, appetence, appetency, appetite, appetition, ardency, ardor, biological urge, bodily appetite, carnal desire, choice, command, conation, conatus, concupiscence,… …

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  • 42sexuality — Synonyms and related words: animality, bawdiness, carnality, clitoromania, coldness, concupiscence, dirtiness, eroticism, eroticomania, erotomania, flesh, fleshliness, frigidity, furor uterinus, goatishness, gynecomania, horniness, hysteromania,… …

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  • 43thirst — Synonyms and related words: ache, an universal wolf, appetence, appetency, appetite, appetition, aridity, aridness, avidity, be ravenous, canine appetite, corkiness, covet, coveting, crave, craving, desire, drink up, drought, dryness, eagerness,… …

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  • 44FIGARO, MARIAGE DE —    a play by Beaumarchais, issued on the stage in Paris 1784, ran its hundred nights; a lean and barren thing; succeeded, as it flattered a pruriency of the time and spoke what all were feeling and longing to speak …

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  • 45desire — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Craving Nouns 1. desire, wish, fancy, fantasy; want, need (see necessity). 2. desirability, appeal, magnetism, attraction. 3. inclination, mind, devices, animus, partiality, penchant, predilection;… …

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  • 46impurity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Moral uncleanness Nouns 1. impurity, immodesty, grossness, indelicacy, indecency; pornography, curiosa, obscenity, ribaldry, smut, bawdy, filth, double entendre; coprophilia; pornographic movie, blue… …

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  • 47itch — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. itching, tickling, prickly sensation; mange, manginess; ca coëthes, cacoëthes scribendi (writer s itch); the itch, scabies, psora; itchiness; burning, tingling; desire, craving, hankering. v. i.… …

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  • 48lust — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. desire, carnality, sex, sensuality, lasciviousness; satyriasis, nymphomania; voracity, avarice, greed, drive, itch, the hots (sl.), yen (sl.). v. i. covet, crave, hunger, desire, yearn, etc. See… …

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  • 49passion — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. love; fervor, ardor, intensity, fever; infatuation, desire; emotion, rage, anger, fury; excitement; informal, predilection, preference. See feeling, violence. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Sexual deSire] Syn …

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  • 50concupiscence — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. lust, lechery, prurience; see deSire 3 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Sexual hunger: amativeness, desire, eroticism, erotism, itch, libidinousness, lust, lustfulness, passion, prurience, pruriency. See DESIRE, SEX …

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